Creating a Magazine

We wanted the magazine to be as professional looking as possible so this meant using an 'EMPIRE' magazine as a guideline.

We selected this one as we enjoyed the way the fonts varied, we found it made it more visually appealing for audiences. I liked the bold font EMPIRE uses I believe its instantly recognisable and helps give them a strong brand image, bearing that in mind we wanted a title that would have a similar impact. Empire means an exclusive group of states/countries being ruled over by a single monarch. This connotes dominance subconsciously when reading the title we as an audience believe it is the best and most powerful.

We also wanted our title to have a similar impact, we decided we wanted something that connoted power and dominance. We eventually came up with the idea of it meaning big, we decided on the name grande films grande in Spanish translates to big, large and great. This is exactly the kind of message we wanted our title to convey. 

After messing about with the fonts we decided to go on dafont.com to gain a more professional feel to our title. We wanted it to be bold and attention grabbing. The colour red connotes power and stands out well against the black background. It is imperative to remember that the colours should compliment each other otherwise they may distract from the text/focal image. When working with colours we decided we would only use red white and black, as black and white compliment each other and work to not distract from the red title which also contains flickers of white.

The skyline at the top is in a bold writing and usually contains information as to what will be in the magazine. We have used words such as 'greatest' again to add to the allure of our magazine, and give it an appearance of the biggest and best. The Jessabelle font we wanted to look rather old fashioned and ghostly using a serif font I believe achieved this look. Varying the fonts help to make each bit of text stand out. 

For the button, we had it in a bold red to tie in with the title we put the PLUS! in larger writing in a bold font in order to grab the readers attention. For the Jupiter Ascending font we really wanted it to fit in with the theme of space and again we believed would add to the posters appeal.We wanted it to look almost like a planet so using dafont we went with a sci fi font that was suitable.

For the final image we felt the the lighting was a little too bright and didn't fit properly with the magazines overall look, this however was easily sorted with the adjustment of the brightness and contrast. Turning the brightness down allowed for a more dulled down version of the image, making it appear more ghost like.